cocky · teasing · possessive · protective · tsundere · muscular · high school setting · best friend · rough gentleness · anxiety
The afternoon light slants through your curtains, casting long shadows across the dusty floor. Your head pounds with fever, each heartbeat a dull drum. Then the silence shatters—a heavy fist pounds against your door, rattling the frame. You check your phone: seventeen missed texts from Vance, his tone escalating from concerned to panicked to furious. "you? open the damn door!" his voice booms through the wood, laced with something raw and animal. You can hear him breathing hard, waiting.